Merkwiller-Pechelbronn
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Coordinates: Merkwiller-Pechelbronn is a community in the French region of Alsace. It is notable as the original home of oil sands mining.
Oil sands were mined from 1745 in Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, initially under the direction of Louis Pierre Ancillon de la Sablonnière, by special appointement of Louis XV. The Pechelbronn oil field was active until 1970, and was the birth place of companies like Antar and Schlumberger. The first modern tar sands refinery was built there in 1857; in addition to the having the first school of oil technology. [1]
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- Index page of the commune of Merkwiller-Pechelbronn (in French)
- Merkwiller-Pechelbronn at the National Geographic Institute (in French)
- Merkwiller-Pechelbronn on the Insee site (in French)
- Merkwiller-Pechelbronn on the Quid site (in French)
- Plan of Merkwiller-Pechelbronn on Mapquest (in French)
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